WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers rejected a $700 billion bailout plan for the financial industry in a shock vote that sent global markets sliding as European authorities scrambled to prop up a slew of banks.
The Dow Jones industrial average posted its biggest points loss ever while the benchmark S&P 500 had its worst day [...]

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By Bruce Cheadle, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jack Layton’s audacious audition for the lead role on Canada’s federal stage continued Monday, with a call for an immediate all-party leaders’ summit to address the financial market meltdown.
“Our first and essential concern must be to make sure that the savings, pensions, homes and jobs [...]

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By OK. Churchill PENAF
Team Building and Leadership Workshop
Nyangoma-Kogello Siaya District.
CASE STUDY I : PENAF is a local community based organization initiated in 2000 and works with local grandmothers guardians to support orphans in Nyangoma Kogello Siaya District.
PENAF works through some 22 community own village level groups to provide care and support to grandmothers, orphans [...]

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By Boniface Gikandi
In a constituency where adulterated alcohol is the order of the day and Mungiki threats rampant, Mr Muturi Mwangi has his work cut out.
Mr Muturi Mwangi, Kiharu MP
Popularly known as BC, Muturi plans to work closely with youths, who after dropping out of school to join criminal gangs such as the outlawed [...]

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By Andrew Cawthorne
(Reuters) - U.S. navy vessels stayed close on Monday to a Ukrainian ship hijacked by pirates with 33 tanks and other military hardware on board in one of the most worrying of a rash of attacks this year off lawless Somalia.
The Gulf-based Fifth Fleet sent destroyer USS Howard and other boats to within [...]

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Mwatela unaware of CID summons
BY ANNE KIGUTA
Former Central Bank Deputy Governor Jacinta Mwatela says she has not received any summons from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in an ongoing probe over the leakage of confidential bank documents.
Sources at the CID told Capital News that they dispatched the letter on September 18, directing the Former [...]

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